Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.